Also for #ScienceFiction readers today, and #StarTrek fans especially, our own @WordsmithFL has a lovely deep dive into production details and other backend considerations for "The Cage" (the first TOS pilot!).

This is more than an episode review. Stephen looks at a key #SFF trope, design influences, and material pressure points that shaped how characters were crafted.

It's a great bit of genre and TV history, well worth the read for creators!

#CoSoTV #WritersOfCoSo
https://thewrittentrek.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-cage-episode-01.html

@LiseL @gemswinc @jenebene

🤣🤣🤣 Magnificently bad. Watch for the red herrings today!

Connections
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Perfect score!

🚨 And... Danger! Danger! Haiku below!

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In a hunger froth,
secrets unravel--for bread
men will speak such things!

Today, I'm working off a week's worth of Heebie Jeebies by posting a short sci-fi story that I hope might offer a nice break from all the tense, exhausting news commentary around the US election today.

Best wishes to all of us; may we wake up tomorrow to a slightly less awful world.

For now--

Enjoy "Louise Bel-Adair, Who Grew Up Watching Her Other Selves Die"!

#SFF #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #Existentialism

https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/a-little-fiction-for-a-difficult

@AskTheDevil

😬 Apparently I am a 🐁.

@Valkyrie_D

🫂❤️ You too, phenomenal woman. You too. ❤️🫂

@LiseL @gemswinc @jenebene

New season in two days!!!

@LiseL @gemswinc @jenebene

I LOVE SHETLAND. The theme music starts playing every time I see the word.

And what a terrific start to your piece! I love the declarative energy of beginning with a note of protest in "except". And "torpor" is just great fun!

@LnzyHou

💯

What's your self-care game plan tomorrow?

@WordsmithFL

To join Steven Seagal? 🤔 That works!

🤨 Someone just asked me to join them for an election watch party tomorrow. Said it would be 'loads of fun'.

Buddy.

No shade to BDSM as a general wheelhouse, but some kinks you *lead up* to disclosing, you know?

#Politics #Election
#ImWatchingHorrorMoviesInstead
#WayLessIntense

@JakeA

Can you imagine the letters they'd be sending home about us? 😬

@BosmangBeratna @evistre

😅 I was leaving a vegan option, but yes!!!

@BosmangBeratna

And lo! As the sun rose on a new day in the United States of America, kith and kin gathered in peace and in song, and ate cheese or sprout sandwiches together on their porches and lawns. 💛🤞🏻

@Helical_Code

😬 Doesn't Hungary have enough problems?

@cmskiera

I love that the second part can be taken two ways. 🙃 The first way is better, obviously, but the ambiguity makes your story art.

@holon42

There's a Spanish concept that I have been thinking about a lot in relation to what comes next: pena ajena - the pain of watching someone else's deplorable, embarrassing, awful actions.

I know some folks want/need to see in prison, but I just don't want to hear about him anymore. Too much pena ajena. I don't want his name mentioned. I don't want more analysis of his politics. I would like him to vanish into the mist, as you describe, so his power is gone and we can move on.

@process

🤞🏻🤞🏻 Heck yes! New verse a-coming!

@countZZero @CanisPundit

😉 That was indeed the reference, which CP pulled off beautifully.

@AskTheDevil

A1: So what did they choose?
A2: Hold up. The last state votes are rolling in.
A1: *waits*
A2: And... NOW! It's good! All clear!
A1: Yes! Showtime!

*Flicks on the flying saucer's lights*

LET'S RIDE!

A3: *aside* Couldn't we have gone in even if they went the other way?
A1: Technically yes, but the eggs back home would be embarrassed if our first-contact photos involved tentacle-touching the other one.
A3: *shudders* He does have very small tentacles.
A1: Right?! The smallest!